Letters: TRAX logic

I wonder if the UTA gave any consideration to where the frequent fliers live in this valley before they determined which line would get the extension to the airport.

I wonder if the UTA gave any consideration to where the frequent fliers live in this valley before they determined which line would get the extension to the airport. My bet is that most frequent fliers reside east of I-15, and therefore extending the Sandy line would have made more sense than a line that originates in the west side of the valley and goes east and then heads west again to get to the airport.

Why would anyone living on the west board a TRAX train that has to make its way through downtown, when they could go north to the airport? East-siders and south valley residents (where most frequent fliers live) would have a "no change of TRAX trains" if the Sandy line were extended to the airport. Is this too logical?

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I don't serve on the UTA Board and so am not privy
to all its decision-making processes. What I am aware of, however, is how
changes to public transportation in S.L. Valley the past 40 years have made it
increasingly more
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6:38 a.m. April 19, 2013

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Ralph West Jordan

Taylorsville, UT

Re: OverfeltA couple of questions! What do you use as a basis for your
opinion that those living east of I15 should have direct access to the Airport
trax any more than those living on the West side of the Interstates? Also is it
possible
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8:47 a.m. April 19, 2013

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No One Of Consequence

West Jordan, UT

Don't let yourselves be confused by all the talk of public transit. Trax,
and the UTA in general, do not exist for the benefit of the riders. Empires
exist for the benefit of Emperors, not for their subjects.